A MANIC father-of-two bluffed his way through security checks at the Olympic Stadium, then hurled a bottle at Usain Bolt at the start of the men’s 100-metre final, a court heard yesterday.

Usain Bolt doing his trademark celebratory pose after winning the 100m Olympic Final

Ashley Gill-Webb, 34, allegedly aimed a barrage of abuse at Bolt, 26, before launching the plastic beer bottle towards him from a £4,000 seat in a VIP area just one row from the starting blocks.

Gill-Webb, of South Milford, near Leeds, allegedly screamed: “Usain, you are bad, you are an ********”.

He is then said to have continued to abuse the star – who went on to set an Olympic record of 9.63 seconds – until Dutch judo champion Edith Bosch intervened from her seat nearby and he was arrested.

Gill-Webb, who allegedly fooled security staff by showing an old ticket, was on a mission to put the Jamaican sprinting legend off his stride during one of the highlights of the Games, Stratford magistrates in East London heard. The bottle he threw hit the tracks behind the starting blocks of Bolt’s Jamaican rival Yohan Blake, 23.

Bipolar sufferer Gill-Webb said he was in the grips of a “manic episode” and did not intend to disrupt the race. He denies two public order offences and claims he cannot remember throwing the bottle.

Usain, you are bad, you are an ********

Ashley Gill-Webb

Miss Bosch, who ended up not seeing the race because of the bust-up, said she was “flabbergasted” at Gill-Webb’s behaviour.

The court heard that Gill-Webb’s success in working his way to a place among the Dutch Olympic squad in the packed 80,000-seat stadium was a “staggering feat”, demonstrating impressive mental capacity.

Prosecutor Neil King said it was accepted that Gill-Webb was unwell at the time.

But Mr King added: “He passed through several steps waving an old ticket in front of people to get past security and that was deliberate. He thought, ‘I want to get into the Olympics and I’ll do it by waving this ticket’ – and it worked.”

The hearing was adjourned until January 11.

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